Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components in Northwest Russia: the Arkhangelsk study

BACKGROUND: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors associated with morbidity from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated mortality. Russia has one of the highest CVD mortality rates in the world. However, the prevalence of MetS in Russia remains largely unknown. The aim of t...

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Main Authors: Sidorenkov, Oleg, Nilssen, Odd, Brenn, Tormod, Martiushov, Sergey, Arkhipovsky, Vadim L, Grjibovski, Andrej M
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832773/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20085638
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-23
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